Midterm Term Projects and Presentations Due
A look at Typography - Week 6
Lecture/Demo:
- Student presentations
- IA Presentation on Typography
- Font choice and familes, text styling and use of white space
- Styling headings to make your pages more scannable
- Unordered and ordered lists
- Finding and using fonts
- How to write for the web - creating scannable text
- The inverted pyramid
- CSS Layouts - typography on the web
- Using unordered and ordered lists
- Proper way to style your headings and text using CSS
- Font Families Support, typeface distinctions, type style for headings and body text, type in images
- Styling and resizing type in Dreamweaver
- letter spacing, font weight, font style, text-transform and font-variant
- Line height, word spacing, text align left and right
- Positioning images with text in the header
- Advanced CSS Layouts - The Liquid Layout and the Elastic Layout
- Listamatic.com
- Getty Images - How to login and search for images for your portfolio.
- Free Backgrounds - Choose a background for your portfolio
Lab:
- This time will be spend on finishing up on the midterm projects at the start of class.
Homework: - Final Project Requirements (See hand-out)
Type Resources
- 50 Useful design tools for typography Smashing Magazine
- 10 Principles for Readable Web Typography Smashing Magazine
- Web Style Guide
- A List Apart
- Bear Skin Rug
Fonts for Sale